Definition of Firring

1. n. See Furring.

Definition of Firring

1. Noun. (architecture) (alternative form of furring) ¹

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Definition of Firring

1. furring [n -S] - See also: furring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Firring

firmly
firmness
firmnesses
firmoss
firmosses
firms
firmth
firmware
firmwares
firmwide
firn
firns
firren
firrier
firriest
firring (current term)
firrings
firry
firs
first-aid
first-aid box
first-aid boxes
first-aid kit
first-aid station
first-aider
first-chance exception
first-chance exceptions

Literary usage of Firring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, Farm by Andrew Jackson Downing (1859)
"An 8-inch wall, when the bricks are laid wet, in thin mortar, to which firring is nailed in this manner, is stronger than a foot-wall laid in the ordinary ..."

2. Woodward's National Architect: Containing ... Original Designs, Plans and ...by George Evertson Woodward, Edward G. Thompson by George Evertson Woodward, Edward G. Thompson (1869)
"PARTITIONS AND firring. Set all the partitions that support beams, with 3x 4-inch ... Ooss-firr the 1st, and 2d, story ceilings, with 1-inch strip firring, ..."

3. Rural Architecture: Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages by Lewis Falley Allen (1852)
"This may be done either by " plugging," that is, driving a plug of wood strongly into the mortar courses, into which the firring should be nailed, ..."

4. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1895)
"A boat manned with two rowers is therefore called a firring, or four-oared boat, one manned with three ... For short distances a firring generally suffices. ..."

5. Elementary building construction and drawing: Stage I by Edward J. Burrell (1889)
"A strip of wood about I^ inches wide, and in the case illustrated ^ inch thick, termed a firring, is nailed across the binder in a line with the ceiling ..."

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